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BASF Headquarters & offices · Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
BASF · Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
An office with an indoor “BASF Street” on the factory boundary, a 263-place company nursery and about 33,000 colleagues on the world’s largest integrated chemical site.
The D105 business center, the work-life campus next to it and more than 160 years on the Rhine — then the business. Every number from BASF’s own report, website and job postings, and from the builders’ project pages.
- ≈ 33,000people work at the Ludwigshafen headquarters
- 263places in the LuKids company nursery
- 38,000 m²net floor area of the D105 business center
- ≈ 10 km²Verbund site, the world’s largest integrated chemical complex
Sources: basf.com Ludwigshafen site pages (The Site, Work-life balance, LuMit) · Lindner project page “BASF Business Center D105”
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THE BUSINESS CENTER · D105 · 2015
Three office blocks joined by an indoor “BASF Street”
D105 is a multi-functional office and conference building in the southern part of the Ludwigshafen site. A “BASF Street” runs across its three rhythmically divided blocks like a mall, spanned by bridges, with the stairs, a bistro and the canteens along it — and the boundary of the factory site runs right through the building. BASF says it was opened in summer 2015 with conference facilities, a modern canteen and multifunctional offices for 1,200 employees. Inside are heated and chilled ceilings, a staff canteen under a wave-shaped ceiling with built-in LED lights, and a conference area with its own stage; many BASF products were used in the building, and its flat roof is a walkable green roof.
- Design: HPP Hentrich-Petschnigg & Partner
- 38,000 m² net floor area (≈ 409,028 sq ft)
- Offices for 1,200 employees
- DGNB Platinum certificate
- Walkable green roof
- Opened summer 2015
D105 from outside
D105 is a multi-functional office and conference building by HPP in the southern part of the Ludwigshafen site, about 89 m × 86 m × 31 m.
D105: the “BASF Street” and its bridges
A “BASF Street” runs across the three blocks like a mall, spanned by bridges, with the stairs, a bistro and the canteens along it.
D105: offices, canteen and conference area
Inside are multifunctional offices for 1,200 employees, a staff canteen under a wave-shaped ceiling with built-in LED lights, and a conference area with its own stage.
The Visitor Center and the Ludwigshafen site
Around D105 lies the Ludwigshafen site: about 10 km² with 125 production plants, and a Visitor Center of more than 2,000 m² on five floors.
Facts: BASF reference page “D105 in Ludwigshafen” (opening, capacity, DGNB, roof) · Stefan Schilling project page “BASF D105”, photographed for HPP Architekten (2016) · Lindner project page “BASF Business Center D105”. Lindner gives “up to 1,300” staff; BASF gives 1,200.
Ludwigshafen
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| BASF SE (registered office) | Carl-Bosch-Straße 38, 67056 Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany |
| Visitor Center | Carl-Bosch-Straße 38, 67063 Ludwigshafen, Germany |
| Business Center D105 | Carl-Bosch-Straße, 67056 Ludwigshafen, Germany |
Source: BASF imprint · basf.com Visitor Center page (which gives postcode 67063) · Lindner project page (D105, no house number given) · See them on the map ↓
Source: Lindner project page (architect, area, floors, completion 2014–2016) · BORAPA project page (dimensions, 8 storeys) · BASF reference page “D105 in Ludwigshafen” (opening, DGNB) · basf.com LuMit, Visitor Center and Ludwigshafen site pages. The two floor counts come from different sources and do not match.
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Benefits (Germany · Ludwigshafen)
LuKids, one of the largest company childcare facilities in Germany: 260 places for children aged six months to three years.
Up to three places for children aged six months to eleven years when regular childcare falls through at short notice.
Holiday program weeks at Easter, in summer and in the fall for children of BASF employees.
“plus” program: buy BASF shares from variable pay and get one free share for every 10 held, after 1, 3, 5, 7 and 10 years.
An internal agreement extends the legal right to reduced working hours for family care from two years to up to six.
A corporate health club and a medical center with many health services.
A discounted job ticket, a job bike and e-charging stations for private cars.
BASF Wohnen + Bauen provides employees with around 6,000 apartments in and around Ludwigshafen.
Source: basf.com Ludwigshafen pages “LuMit”, “More space for work, family and private life” and “BASF as a Neighbor” · basf.com “plus” incentive share program · BASF job posting 141946, Ludwigshafen (2026). Holiday days and parental-leave pay are not published on these pages.
How BASF describes working there
8,280 people left in 2025, counting voluntary and involuntary leaves, retirements and deaths (7.2% in 2024).
Nearly 85,000 employees took the survey (75% participation); BASF’s target is more than 80% (2024: 79%).
About 10,000 m² and five buildings with childcare, fitness and counseling under one roof; about 600 employees use it every day.
Flexible working hours, part-time, mobile working and leave options, where compatible with the job.
BASF says it has relied on training its own skilled employees for many years.
Mentoring, learning programs and moves to other positions, including job rotation.
Source: BASF Report 2025, S1 Own Workforce · basf.com Ludwigshafen pages (LuMit; More space for work, family and private life) · BASF job posting 141946
Who works here
employees in Germany
employees at BASF SE
work at the Ludwigshafen headquarters
of leaders with disciplinary responsibility are women
Source: BASF Report 2025, S1 Own Workforce (headcount by region, Germany, BASF SE, women) · basf.com Ludwigshafen “The Site”. Shares calculated by eciffo; the “Other” bar is South America, Africa and Middle East.
Office history: from a Mannheim gas works to an office on the factory boundary
- 1865 Founded in Mannheim, built in Ludwigshafen
Friedrich Engelhorn, owner of a coal gas company in Mannheim, founded the stock corporation “Badische Anilin- & Sodafabrik” in Mannheim on April 6, 1865. When attempts to buy land on the Baden side of the Rhine failed, the plants were built on the opposite bank in Ludwigshafen, then part of the Kingdom of Bavaria.
Source: basf.com History, Chronology “1865”
Ludwigshafen, 1866 · © BASF SE - 1913 The world’s first ammonia synthesis plant
The first ammonia synthesis plant in the world went into operation in 1913 at the new Oppau plant, opening a completely new field of business: fertilizers.
Source: basf.com History, Chronology “1902–1924”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1925 Part of I.G. Farben
BASF joined forces with five other major chemical companies in I.G. Farben; the works were known as I.G. Farben-Werke Ludwigshafen/Oppau.
Source: basf.com History, Chronology “1925–1944”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1952 Re-established in Ludwigshafen
After the French occupation and the break-up of I.G. Farben, Badische Anilin- & Sodafabrik AG was re-established on January 30, 1952, at first reduced to its original factories in Ludwigshafen and Oppau.
Source: basf.com History, Chronology “1945–1964”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2014 A competition for the site of the old high-rise
BASF held a two-stage competition for a new high-rise on the site of the Friedrich Engelhorn high-rise E100, which had been completely demolished. The winning Eller + Eller design — two 88 m slabs for about 600 workplaces — won a MIPIM Future Projects award in 2016.
Source: Eller + Eller project page “BASF HQ, Ludwigshafen”
Friedrich Engelhorn high-rise E100 · Immanuel Giel / Public domain · Wikimedia Commons - 2015 D105 opens
The office and conference building D105 opened in summer 2015, with conference facilities, a modern canteen and multifunctional offices for 1,200 employees.
Source: BASF reference page “D105 in Ludwigshafen” · Lindner project page
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2018 Plans for an office at Gate 2
BASF planned a new office building at Gate 2 on the site of the former Friedrich Engelhorn high-rise, next to the Visitor Center, D105 and the Creation Center, because building D 100 — used among others by the Board of Executive Directors — needed about three years of renovation.
Source: BASF press release P-18-300, Aug 30, 2018
Gate 2 with the Friedrich Engelhorn high-rise · HBR / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2020 More mobile work, no new tower
BASF dropped the Gate 2 office building, citing the economic situation and a stronger shift toward mobile working, and decided to build a Medical Center for the site instead.
Source: BASF press release P-20-289, Sep 2020
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Map: how the headquarters moved
Founded in Mannheim, built across the Rhine in Ludwigshafen — and BASF has stayed on that bank ever since. Today the headquarters is part of a roughly 10 km² chemical site.
- 1 · 1865Mannheim — Founding of Badische Anilin- & Sodafabrik — city centre shown; no street address published
- 2 · TodayCarl-Bosch-Straße 38, Ludwigshafen — BASF SE's registered address on the Ludwigshafen site; business center D105 opened 2015
Places and years: basf.com History “1865” and BASF imprint · Locations: OpenStreetMap
What BASF does
BASF began in 1865 making dyes from coal tar. Today it says it wants to be “the preferred chemical company to enable our customers’ green transformation”, selling to almost every industry from cars and farming to construction and consumer goods. Its Ludwigshafen site is the model for the “Verbund”, where plants, energy and logistics are linked to use resources efficiently.
Six segments: Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Nutrition & Care, Surface Technologies and Agricultural Solutions, plus Other.
Where the money came from · sales by segment, 2025
Source: BASF Report 2025, Segments (segment overview). Other: €3.2B.
Source: basf.com “2025 at a Glance” (Factbook) · BASF Report 2025, Segments
Growth: revenue vs. people
€57.6B → €59.7B
113,830 → 108,251
Source: BASF Report 2025, Ten-Year Summary (sales; employees at year-end). 2017, 2018 and 2024 were restated for discontinued operations (oil and gas, construction chemicals, coatings). Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors (CEO) since April 2024; on the Board since 2017 and based in Hong Kong from 2020, running the Asia business.
Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors from 2018 until the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on April 25, 2024.
Founder; chairman of the Board of Executive Directors from 1865 to 1883.
Founder: Friedrich Engelhorn (1865), with the chemists August and Carl Clemm as co-founders.
Source: basf.com Board of Executive Directors (Dr. Markus Kamieth) · BASF news release “Management changes at BASF”, Dec 2023 · basf.com History, Chronology “1865”
BASF: questions people ask
Where is BASF's headquarters?
At Carl-Bosch-Straße 38, 67056 Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany, on BASF’s Ludwigshafen Verbund site — the world’s largest integrated chemical complex, about ten square kilometres.
Source: BASF imprint · basf.com Ludwigshafen site page
How many people work at BASF's headquarters?
About 33,000 — a good third of BASF’s employees worldwide work in Ludwigshafen. The BASF Group had 108,251 employees at the end of 2025.
Source: basf.com Ludwigshafen “The Site” · BASF Report 2025, Ten-Year Summary
Who designed BASF's D105 office building?
HPP Hentrich-Petschnigg & Partner of Düsseldorf. Lindner was the general contractor.
Source: Lindner project page · BORAPA project page
How big is D105?
A net floor area of 38,000 m² (about 409,028 sq ft), about 89 m × 86 m × 31 m. BASF says it has offices for 1,200 employees; Lindner says up to 1,300.
Source: Lindner project page · BORAPA project page · BASF reference page “D105 in Ludwigshafen”
What happened to BASF's old high-rise?
The Friedrich Engelhorn high-rise (E100) was completely demolished. A 2014 competition for a new tower on the site was won by Eller + Eller, and in 2018 BASF planned another office there, but in 2020 it dropped the plan, citing the economy and more mobile working.
Source: Eller + Eller project page · BASF press releases P-18-300 (2018) and P-20-289 (2020)
Can you visit BASF in Ludwigshafen?
Yes. The BASF Visitor Center at Carl-Bosch-Straße 38 has a 2,000 m² exhibition on five floors, open Monday to Friday from 9 am to 4 pm except public holidays, plus bookable site tours and open-house Saturdays.
Source: basf.com Visitor Center page
What benefits does BASF offer in Ludwigshafen?
A 263-place company nursery with emergency care, holiday programs for children, the “plus” share program with free shares, a corporate health club and medical center, reduced hours for family care for up to six years, and a discounted Deutschlandticket and job bike.
Source: basf.com LuMit and work-life pages · “plus” incentive share program · BASF job posting 141946
Does BASF offer flexible or mobile work?
BASF says it offers flexible working hours, part-time work, mobile working and leave options, with guidelines on where, when and how employees work where the job allows.
Source: basf.com “More space for work, family and private life”
Who is BASF's CEO?
Markus Kamieth, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors since April 2024. He succeeded Martin Brudermüller, chairman since 2018.
Source: basf.com Board of Executive Directors · BASF news release, Dec 2023
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